COAL, CRIMINALITY, AND INDUSTRIAL HOMICIDE: NPR STORY ON A DEEPLY COMPROMISED REGULATORY SYSTEM

We keep pointing out that the coal industry has baked-in malfeasance -- that is, an institutionalized culture and practice of avoiding and/or delaying an active response to mine-safety violations.

This is a great exposé of the worst violators.  Yet, NPR does not dig into how the companies who supposedly pay their fines also spend years jamming up the system with appeals of violations. These are the just the worst of a bad lot across the board.

  http://www.npr.org/2014/11/12/363058646/coal-mines-keep-operating-despite-injuries-violations-and-millions-in-fines